Let's Go!

Hi there! Back once more with my second card for the next couple of challenges! It was fun to see a similar challenge for Fantabulous Cricut and My Craft Spot this week - on the go, and things that go - so I combined them by using my Cricut, and some stamps I won from My Craft Spot recently and hadn't inked up! They stamped PERFECTLY - and I am so happy with them!

I started off by grabbing some paper from my Crate Paper 6x6 Paper Heart collection. Think these are some of my favorite papers ever! Trying not to hoard them though... 

I cut the silhouette out with my Cricut and Sweethearts cartridge, and cut the heart out of a different color so it would pop a bit. 

The frame shape is cut using Elegant Edges, and I stamped the sentiment above and below my Cricut cut. Added a bit of bling in the corners to finish it off. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope to see you again soon!

Welcome to the Family!

So, I actually made this a while back, and just kind of realized I hadn't posted it yet!!! My husbands older brother finally proposed to his girlfriend several weeks ago, so I had to make her a card to welcome her to the family! I really LOVE how this one came out!!!

I used Elegant Edges to make the shaped card, and Sweethearts for the silhouette image.

Added some doodling, and lots and lots of inking! Also pop-dotted the couple from the background.

Isn't that sentiment from My Creative Time the best? That is actually what inspired the whole card - amazing how having the perfect sentiment can do that!

Finished off with a bunch of bling using my Jolee's heat set tool, and a little ribbon on the side.

Thanks for stopping by! I am also entering this over on the Cricut Blog to celebrate World Cardmaking Day, as well as My Craft Spot and Celebrate the Occassion - both to use ribbon.



Cricut 360 - Date Night Invitation

Hello, and welcome to my first Design Team post for Cricut 360 - an AWESOME new challenge blog!!! To join in the challenge, and for a chance at the monthly prize, all you have to do is make an invitation of any kind (birthday, wedding, concert - use your imagination!) and link up on the Cricut 360 blog! Here is what you can win this week:

For my card, I decided to make an invitation for my husband - for a romantic date night! When you have kids, you learn REALLY quickly to treasure those opportunities!!! And it is something we try to make time to do as often as possible, knowing that we need to keep our relationship as a priority as well.

Anyway...for my card, I used the silhoette of the couple from Sweethearts cartridge. Inked the edges of the yellow shadow, and added some doodling, before pop-dotting from the background. I then cut the tag shape from Once Upon a Princess, and inked the edges of it as well. The sentiment is from a random stamp in my stash (possibly by Fiskars?) I used some felt for the banner, hand cut and glued down with Zip Dry glue. Added some Baker's Twine to the banner, and used some to attach the tag with the sentiment. Finished off with a litttle bit of doodling around the outside edge. 

Thanks for stopping by - now go link up your own invitation!!! Can't wait to see what you create!!!

Baby shower card

I am getting ready to go to a baby shower in just a few minutes, but wanted to share the card I made for it with you first! They are having a little girl, and the invitations were brown and pink, so I decided to use those colors for the card. I am also entering this in the Cooking with Cricut April Showers Challenge, and the Fantabulous Cricut April Showers Challenge to use an umbrella or hat.

This is a large 6 x 6 card, since I will be hand delivering it and don't have to worry about postage! I cut the background shape from Twinkle Toes, and the umbrella from Sweethearts cartridge. The sentiment is from a set I got at Michael's on clearance a while back. Inked the edges of everything, and added lots of glitter, and some cute ribbon. Thanks for looking!



The Moments Valentine Card

Well, another day, and another card to let my hubby know he is loved and appreciated. This is my card for day 3 of the week leading up to Valentines Day. This card kind of has a story behind it. I totally LOVE trees...and everywhere we go I am always noticing the trees along the way. I know...kind of weird! Anyway, this card is to thank him for his adventuresome spirit, and his love of the open road - we both LOVE taking road trips. These trips have taken us to the Redwoods in California, the Sugar Maples in Quebec, Canada, to the few (but really cool) trees in Oklahoma and Kansas, and hiking and camping under all the trees in our lovely area in the Northwest. I love how we have carved many of the memories of our life in this way.

Anyway, used the tree from Sweethearts, sentiment from Unity Stamps, Baker's Twine, some doodling - and lots of faux stitching. I am entering this in the Wacky Wednesday Challenge over at More Than Favors to make a Valentine's Card.

Thanks for looking - hope you are having a great day!!!



Showered with Love Valentine card

This is day two of the cards I decided to make for this week leading up to Valentine's to thank my husband for all the things I love and appreciate about him! This one is to thank him for the fact that I feel like we are always a team - standing under the same umbrella no matter what storm we face. It makes me feel "showered with love"! He found the first one in his lunch yesterday and called to tell me he loved it - but I don't think he has any idea that I might be putting another one in today!

For this card, all the cuts came from the Sweethearts cartridge - and I cut some extra hearts out to make it a real "shower" of hearts! Lots of ink and doodles with my white gel pen, finished off with a simple bow and a sentiment from Pink by Design.

I am also entering this in the Paper Playtime Challenge to use either Cupids or hearts (obviously - LOTS of hearts and no Cupid!) and the Circut Cardz Challenge #60 to make a Valentine card for a man, and finally in the current challenge at My Pink Stamper



Sweetheart Blog Hop is Here!!!

Welcome to my stop along the Sweetheart Blog Hop! If you got here from Libby, then you are in the right spot. Here is the lineup, in case you get lost along the way. If you happened across in the middle, please head back to the beginning - so you don' t miss anything!

Georgiana http://www.carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Cheryl http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/

Jen http://www.purplescrapbooker.com/

Carri http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/

Celeste http://ccscards.blogspot.com/

Libby http://beachcreationsforyou.blogspot.com/

Heather http://housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com/  (You're here!)

Lisa http://ljsscrapshack.blogspot.com/

Tracy http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/

Star http://starspaperpassion.blogspot.com/

So I have 3 different Valentine cards for you today. I was going to try to make something a little different than a card, but I guess I just love making cards too much! Anyway, here they are along with all their details. I also have a little something I am giving away - so make sure and read to the end of this post!

I LOVE how this first card came out! It uses several of my favorite things! My Cricut Expression (Sweethearts cartridge for the shaped card welded together on my Gypsy, as well as the cute little his and hers towels), Peachy Keen Stamps (The cute little faces!), Unity Stamps (the sentiment!), Baker's Twine from The Twinery (the bows on the top), and my white gel pen and Sakura Glaze black pen for all the doodling.

Here is a close up of the towels - they are pop-dotted from the background for a bit of dimension.

And here is the inside all prepared for writing a sweet note in!

This second card I think I just love because of the colors! Pretty much all using some more of my Unity Stamps. Stamped the banner twice, cut them both out, then stacked them with pop dots to give some dimension. Added twine to "hang" the banner on, and wrote "I LOVE YOU" on my hand. (That was a brave moment - I usually don't like my handwriting!) Also stamped the hearts and cut them out, then glued them on black paper, and added a couple layers of coordinating cardstock punched with a Fiskar's edge punch. Finished off with LOTS of inking, and a little self stick bling. 

This one was totally inspired by the paper. I was flipping through my stash looking for the perfect paper for some pics I was scrapbooking, and happened upon this. Didn't even remember that I had it!!! Totally had to make something with it! So I pulled out my Unity stamps, stamped them and added some coloring with my Prismacolor pencils and my white gel pen, pop-dotted the biggest heart coming out of the box, and added some doodling with my black Sakura glaze pen. Then I had these little birds with hearts in their beak that I had cut for another project from A Child's Year cartridge (the icon feature) and never used. So I added some stitching on them and pop-dotted them onto the card. Finished with some ribbon, a bow, and a bit of bling stuck on with my Jolee's heat set tool (another favorite tool!), even though the picture doesn't show it very well.

This picture shows the pop dotting a little better.

I am also offering a little treat for everyone who leaves me a comment: A set of flourish stamps - great for scrapbooking or cardmaking, or any other projet you can think of, and a sample of 2 yards each of all 9 colors of twine from The Twinery - I LOVE this stuff, and use it on almost everything! (In case you didn't notice!) Here's a picture of what you get:

So...leave me a comment and a way to contact you, and I will pick a random winner on Monday morning.

Your next stop is Lisa, over at http://ljsscrapshack.blogspot.com/ - have fun the rest of the way!

And Happy Valentines Day!

 

I (heart) you banner

There were a few different challenges I wanted to enter all at once, so last night I made this cute little banner to surprise my daughters with when they wake up this morning. I'm going to let them hang it up in their room. I'm sure they will be SOO excited, and I can't wait to see their faces!

The first challenge was over at Made by Momo, and it was to use the colors hot pink, black, and white and use at least 1 heart. If that wasn't obvious already!

The second challenge was at Crafting with Cristina, and it was to make a Valentines themed project - but NOT a card! That made it a little tougher for me, since cards are definately my favorite thing to make!

The last challenge was over on the Cricut Circle blog, and it was to make a banner, with at least 3 Cricut cuts.

So I cut the banner from Birthday Bash, as well as the scalloped circles and the letters. The heart came from Simply Charmed, just without the face showing, and I cut the top white layer by welding together two different size hearts. The little cupids are from the Sweethearts cartridge. I added Glossy Accents to all the black parts of the cuts, icicle Stickles to the center of the heart, and black Stickle dots to the edges of the white scallops and the white part of the heart. Did some doodling, and then strung it together with Baker's Twine. Oh yeah...almost forgot...also pop dotted the I (heart) U part as well!



Peachy Keen LFIF - XOXO!!!

When I saw the challenge for this weeks Let's Face it Friday on the Peachy Keen Challenge Blog - I couldn't wait to do it!!! The project had to have X's and O's somewhere on it, and of course, Peachy Keen Faces. So...I thought, why not just make the Card's focus X's and O's? Here is what I came up with!

The X's, O's, and hearts came from the Sweethearts cartridge. I added some Peachy Keen faces from the Basic Paper Doll Face Assortment, some punched black corners, some of my new twine from the Twinery (I am in LOVE with it!), a button, and lots and lots and lots of stitching and doodling and dots.

Thanks for looking! Have a great day!